: How to reword this: repeated back on him? I don't know how to reword this: Along the way, we see how the faults Jacob made earlier in life are repeated back on him. I know

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How about "...we see how Jacob repeats the mistakes he made earlier in life?"

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we see how the faults Jacob made earlier in his life begin to bleed back into his existence, recurring endlessly like an abyss in trepidation, an inflatable nightmare; draining through fading, whispered telephone conversations in the winter drear.

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first of all, it's "the mistakes" he made — one doesn't make faults

are revisited upon him
return upon him
come back to bite him in the [tuchus]
come back to haunt him
come home to roost
beat a path back to his door [a play
on "if you build a better mousetrap,
the world will beat a path to your
door"]

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